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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too.

——Maugham

如果國家對任何事的評(píng)估高於自由，它會(huì)喪失自由；諷刺的是，如果它評(píng)估高的是安逸或金錢，它也會(huì)喪失安逸或金錢。

——毛姆

一、下面我們來看看freedom的意思是什么

n.

1.自由，自主[U]

They have an air of freedom, and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort.

他們自由自在，不沽名釣譽(yù)或貪圖享受。

2.自由權(quán)；特權(quán)，特許[U]

In this sense, property right equals to freedom, as is defined by law.

因而，財(cái)產(chǎn)權(quán)就是自由權(quán)，這是法律的維度內(nèi)所界定的。

3.直率

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二、freedom的常見短語，你會(huì)用嗎？

freedom of the press? n.出版自由

degree of freedom? n.自由度

academic freedom? n.學(xué)術(shù)自由

freedom fighter? n.自由戰(zhàn)士

freedom of the seas? n.公海自由

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三、學(xué)會(huì)freedom的用法了嗎？來做個(gè)小測試吧

She?bartered away?her????????? for?wealth.?

她為財(cái)富而出賣了自由。

These?words?will?endure?as long as?people?live?who love?????????? .?

只要熱愛自由的人們還活著，這些話語將是永恒的。